Government & Politics

Several Rochester food trucks, including one of last year’s champions, will participate in the annual Taste NY Food Truck Competition at the New York State Fair Sept. 1 and 2. The annual competition features 40 trucks, with twelve new ones ...

The utility company that modernized energy production at the former Kodak Park and turned it away from coal has won $5 million from a carbon-reduction contest run by New York State. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Friday that Recycled ...

The City of Rochester has filed a lawsuit against the opioid industry, seeking reparations for the damage prescription opioids contributed to the rise of the opioid and heroin epidemic. The sprawling, 302-page lawsuit names defendants across the entire industry, from ...

The first foreclosure action on a local property in Robert Morgan’s apartment empire is underway in state Supreme Court in Monroe County. ESL Federal Credit Union filed papers on Monday morning to foreclose on Morgan Rivers Run LLC in Henrietta, ...

Agricultural and food entrepreneurs in the Finger Lakes and two adjoining regions may compete for up to $1 million in a new business stimulation competition announced Friday. The Grow-NY competition is funded by $21 million in prize money over three ...

Bill Gray’s Restaurant and Tap Room is the newest addition to the terminal building at the Port of Rochester. The restaurant’s operators and corporate officials joined Mayor Lovely A. Warren for a ribbon cutting on Wednesday. The restaurant is in ...

For years, advocates for farmworkers have lobbied to end exemptions to labor laws that exist on farms but with little success. Since Democrats took control of the state Senate last fall, however, a new effort concerning farm interests introduced by ...

If you were an early investor in a Robert Morgan real estate fund, you probably made out quite well. You received your promised 11 percent rate of return from the Note Fund, and it arrived on time. Hopefully you didn’t ...

BUFFALO — Robert Morgan’s real estate empire may be on the verge of crumbling following today’s 114-count superseding indictment by federal authorities that charges him with wire and bank fraud in an alleged $500 million mortgage fraud scheme. Morgan, founder and ...

Housing developments in LeRoy, Sweden, Canandaigua and Seneca Falls will share in $14 million of state funding, helping to create or preserve 256 affordable homes. The funding is part of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s five-year, $20 billion Housing Plan and made ...

Mayor Lovely Warren’s proposed $552 million spending plan for fiscal year 2019-20 will cost the typical Rochester homeowner $49.56 more a year but closes to zero the $38.7 million gap faced when the budgeting process began. The city also said ...

Two groups have come together at the Rochester City Public Market to make sure tons of food waste are used for animal feed or turned into compost instead of being trucked to a landfill. The joint efforts of Flower City ...

Louise M. Slaughter’s congressional papers are being donated to the University of Rochester. The late congresswoman, who died in 2018 while still in Congress, represented the Rochester area for 31 years and 16 terms. The university announced the donation from ...

As New York’s legislature moves closer to making sports betting a legal reality at the state’s four full casinos, del Lago Resort & Casino has begun construction on its DraftKings Sportsbook. The 6,000-square-foot-plus lounge will be built in the space ...